Comments on: Firefox takes 38.6% marketshare in Ireland

By: James Galvin » Blog Archive » TV Licence Online - Unsupported Browser

James Galvin » Blog Archive » TV Licence Online - Unsupported Browser — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:19:39 +0000

[...] these people realise that Firefox has a 38.6% market share in Ireland and growth rate of 55%? Those were the statistics from last summer anyway, so even if they’re [...]

By: macBrowser - The popularity contest

macBrowser - The popularity contest — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:46:39 +0000

[...] The Windows based browser war between Firefox and Internet Explorer has had it’s share of the limelight over the last few years. The ‘war’ has given a bit of a poke recently when it was announced that Firefox has a 38.6% market share in Ireland. A few Irish bloggers rolled in with their stats and they each displayed positive numbers for Firefox, for the most part. But what about the Mac’s browser war? How is that fairing? [...]

By: Training and Technology » Firefox on the rise in Ireland - why the sudden increase?

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:37:41 +0000

[...] Mozilla Firefox has jumped up to nearly 39% marketshare in Ireland and is now at 28% Europe-wide according to a XiTiMonitor report. There has been a sharp jump in Irish use since the start of 2007 leaving posters on Damian Mulley’s excellent blog pondering on the reason. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:09:04 +0000

James’ comment made me laugh as it’s so true.

My site this month:
Firefox 43%
Internet Explorer 46%

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:40:19 +0000

Firefox 7598 47.2 %
MS Internet Explorer 7168 44.5 %
Unknown 1207 7.5 %

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:18:11 +0000

30.5 %
People are moving to firefox because they kept getting spyware and popups asking them to buy stuff, and they kept calling the neighbour over to fix it, until the neighbour got sick of it and installed AVG and Firefox and deleted the shortcut to Internet explorer from the desktop.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:48:21 +0000

Here’s the stats for ryderdiary.com for the past month. Interestingly they appear to have a higher percentage of IE users.

Browser - Percentage
Internet Explorer - 80.98%
Firefox - 13.01%
Safari - 4.16%
Mozilla - 0.98%
Netscape - 0.40%
Opera - 0.29%
Camino - 0.06%
SAMSUNG-SGH-I607 - 0.06%
Konqueror - 0.06%

And here is where they came from:

Country Percentage
United States 51%
United Kingdom 27%
Ireland 10%
Canada 3%
Australia 3%
Germany 2%
Sweden 1%
Netherlands 1%
France 1%
Spain 1%

By: Primal Sneeze

Primal Sneeze — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:05:14 +0000

33% Firefox
44% MSIE
18% Safari
3% Opera
2% Other

But only 36% are visitors from Ireland.

Why Firefox? Tabbed way before IE was. Excellent add-ons - WebDeveloper; Dictionaries (even for Gaeilge) etc. Totally customisable. Perfect complement to Thunderbird. Uncluttered. Basically, Firefox gave the user everything they wanted long before IE. Microsoft are just playing catchup.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:46:53 +0000

IE: 45% (6-27%, 7-18%)
FF: 44%
Saf: 7%
Op: 2%

By: McAWilliams

McAWilliams — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:32:07 +0000

McAWilliams.com

IE : 59.54%
Firefox : 33.28%
Safari : 4.52%
Opera : 1.23%
Mozilla : 1.19%
Konqueror : 0.16%
Netscape : 0.04%
Camino : 0.04%